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- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 1 day ago:
I’m not sure if you mean this in like animal rights kind of way or like “I really fucking love beans” kind of way. Or both?
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 2 days ago:
So like this then?
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 2 days ago:
Who said this? Not I
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 2 days ago:
Of course, of course
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 2 days ago:
Are you implying that someone could lie on the internet?
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- Comment on Grilled is the best 2 days ago:
It’s actually cheaper in the US, to note. The lowest income groups in the US are the one exactly the most likely to be vegan or plant-based
- Comment on Grilled is the best 2 days ago:
Even with subsidies, it’s still cheaper if you compare to whole-plant based diets and real world spending data. It’s only the pre-made plant-based meats and similar that are more expensive because they don’t yet have the same economies of scale
Seems like you are from Italy based on your instance? Studies have found overall costs lower in Italy for plant-based diets
- Comment on Grilled is the best 2 days ago:
The lowest income groups are actually the most likely to be vegan and eat the least meat, dairy, etc. around the world. The lowest income countries eat the least animal products
- Comment on Grilled is the best 2 days ago:
Even with subsidies, it’s still cheaper if you compare to whole-plant based diets and real world spending data. It’s only the pre-made plant-based meats and similar that are more expensive because they don’t yet have the same economies of scale
It found that in high-income countries:
• Vegan diets were the most affordable and reduced food costs by up to one third.
• Vegetarian diets were a close second.
• Flexitarian diets with low amounts of meat and dairy reduced costs by 14%.
• By contrast, pescatarian diets increased costs by up to 2%.
ox.ac.uk/…/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-…
Compared to meat eaters, results show that “true” vegetarians do indeed report lower food expenditures
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0921800915301488?via=ihu… (looking at the US)
Based on primary data (n = 1040) collected through an online survey, representative of the Portuguese population, through logistic regressions, it was possible to conclude that plant-based consumers, particularly vegan, are associated with lower food expenditures compared to omnivorous consumers. In fact, plant-based consumers are shown to spend less than all other consumers assessed
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 2 days ago:
This was for general diffusion model outputs a few years ago, but a lot of the speculation of why the outputs are similar likely hold here
There are also only so many good data sets available for people to use to build image models, Phillip Isola, a professor at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, told me, meaning the models might overlap in what they’re trained on. (One popular one, CelebA, features 200,000 labeled photos of celebrities. Another, LAION 5B, is an open-source option featuring 5.8 billion pairs of photos and text.)
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Five years ago, he explained, image generators tended to create really blurry outputs. Researchers realized that it was the result of a mathematical fluke; the models were essentially averaging all the images they were trained on. Averaging, it turns out, “looks like blur.” It’s possible that, today, something similarly technical is happening with this generation of image models that leads them to plop out the same kind of dramatic, highly stylized imagery—but researchers haven’t quite figured it out yet. Additionally, “most models have an ‘aesthetic’ filter on both the input and output that reject images that don’t meet a certain aesthetic criteria,” Hany Farid, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, told me over email. “This type of filtering on the input and output is almost certainly a big part of why AI-generated images all have a certain ethereal quality
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The third theory revolves around the humans who use these tools. Some of these sophisticated models [this is not as sophisticated as the author is implying] incorporate human feedback; they learn as they go. This could be by taking in a signal, such as which photos are downloaded. Others, Isola explained, have trainers manually rate which photos they like and which ones they don’t. Perhaps this feedback is making its way into the model
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This could be intentional: If such imagery has a market, maybe companies would begin to converge around it. Or it could be unintentional; companies do lots of manual work in their models to combat bias, for example, and various tweaks favoring one kind of imagery over another could inadvertently result in a particular look
- Comment on Grilled is the best 3 days ago:
I love the whole “this vegan shit is easy” meme format
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- Comment on Dog Love 1 week ago:
I’d presume that too
- Comment on Dog Love 1 week ago:
Where do we count the meat, dairy, etc. industry lobbyist and legislators making exceptions to the laws in almost every state in the US?
As state legislatures began proposing anti-bestiality laws in the 1990s, the agriculture lobby repeatedly opposed the bills
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Of the 27 states that have enacted bestiality statutes since 1990, 24 include nearly identical exemptions for animal husbandry. (Kansas, Iowa, and Delaware’s laws do not.) With the exemptions included, agricultural interests in many states have gone from covertly opposing anti-bestiality bills to either staying mum or even lobbying for them
- Comment on New American Food Pyramid 3 weeks ago:
Sorry I ate them so they couldn’t be put on the pyramid. My bad
- Comment on New American Food Pyramid 3 weeks ago:
Everyone knows that meat is only supposed to be bought to fund animal cruelty, not to be eaten
- Comment on It's happening 4 weeks ago:
Missing the chanting of beans over and over as we slowly forget anything else exist. The humble potato is yet but a myth. All we know are beans
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- Comment on Adfree Cities Calls For A Ban On Factory Farming Advertisements 5 weeks ago:
Significantly harder to achieve a ban of all advertising, but I do agree and think what Amsterdam has done is probably a better model (just banning ads for meat entirely)
- Comment on Adfree Cities Calls For A Ban On Factory Farming Advertisements 5 weeks ago:
There is some amount of traction for similar ideas. From the article:
The campaign calls on local councils to take action on advertising that promotes meat, dairy, and factory farming to “make room for more honest conversations about food.” In a UK-first, Zoe Garbett, the Mayor of Hackney, has pledged to end meat and dairy advertising on all council-owned land in the East London borough.
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Earlier this year, Amsterdam became the first capital city in the world to introduce a ban on advertisements for fossil fuels and meat
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- Comment on Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds | Agriculture is the second most polluting sector of the global economy 3 months ago:
Animal agriculture is especially worse because it plainly demands much more agriculture to happen due to it’s inefficiencies. It requires growing huge amounts of animal feed where most of the energy is lost. Even it’s best case is bad compared to the worst case for eating plants directly
Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits
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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
- Comment on Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds | Agriculture is the second most polluting sector of the global economy 3 months ago:
The FAO, unfortunately, has quite a history in downplaying things and sticking their thumb on the scale in favor of the meat and dairy industry on things like this
In a sign of the atmosphere in the FAO at this time, a fourth veteran insider, “Mary Wagyu”, claims to have been admonished after preparing Meatless Monday leaflets for distribution in the cafeteria of an FAO heads of state food security summit in 2008. “Remove and destroy them,” a senior FAO executive said, according to Wagyu. “These will not be put in people’s trays.”
In 2009 a second FAO report called Livestock in the Balance was delayed for several months while the FAO’s leadership tried to dilute references to harm caused by the meat industry, arguing that this had already been covered by Livestock’s Long Shadow. When the research team resisted the pressure, management stepped in and manually rewrote key passages over their heads, sparking what Steinfeld called “a mini-revolution”. About a dozen staff members involved in preparing the report withdrew their names from the paper in protest.
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Between 2012 and 2019, “the lobbyists obviously managed to influence things”, Holstein said. “They had a strong impact on the way things were done at the FAO and there was a lot of censorship. It was always an uphill struggle getting the documents you produced past the office for corporate communications and one had to fend off a good deal of editorial vandalism. You had to accept relatively small steps forward in changing the narrative on livestock.”
Steinfeld added that meat lobby representatives and diplomats would talk to senior FAO managers and encourage them not to invest in work that dealt with environmental impacts.
- Comment on Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds | Agriculture is the second most polluting sector of the global economy 3 months ago:
Graph from the article:
Per capita beef consumption is down slightly, but not as much as chicken / poultry consumption has increased. People are generally eating much more meat overall per capita. Chicken and poultry still have a pretty heavy emissions profile, it’s just that beef is somehow worse. The net increase in meat consumption is still a massive net negative on the climate
In terms of ethics, switching to chicken results in significantly more induvidial chickens being killed because of their lower slaughter weight. The factory farms that house the vast majority of chickens keep growing larger and larger and quite disturbing. This is true around the world. For example just in England alone, there are at minimum over 700 factory farms for chickens, four of which have over a million chickens
- Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds | Agriculture is the second most polluting sector of the global economywww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 16 comments
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 4 months ago:
Starting this off with: I am not an epidemiologist and most of the epidemiologist I’m seeing online aren’t yet too concerned
That being said, they have not found any rodents on the ship, though that does not mean they didn’t just them in their search. The version on the ship has been confirmed to be the Andes Virus (ANDV) which is human-to-human transmissible in a way that most hantavirus are not
It’s hard to say exactly how the virus will behave outside of a cruise ship (which are known for spreading diseases more than other locations), but we can potentially look at a past outbreak in 2018 in a small town for an idea
In this work, we described the isolation of the strain responsible for the largest ANDV PTP transmission outbreak, which occurred in the small town of Epuyén and began on November 2, 2018. This strain, ARG-Epuyén, exhibited a high capacity for PTP transmission, necessitating the implementation of quarantine measures to curtail further spread [8]. The median reproductive number (the mean number of secondary cases caused by an infected person) was 2.12 before control measures were implemented and subsequently dropped to below 1.0 by late January
- Comment on Turkey Mention 6 months ago:
youtu.be/bAF35dekiAY?t=74 for this being acted out
- Comment on Turkey Mention 6 months ago:
Not a member or anything, but there’s some stuff like that on Lemmy
!veganhomecooks@lemmy.world
!veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works
Plus some recipe websites are really good like Nora Cooks
